Unfortunately for him his editor had indulged in his book, in a pictorial and fulsome description of the Rainy River, as an agricultural region.

Mr.Roebuck quoted this passage and Sir George was in a serious dilemma.

If he admitted it his evidence would seem untrue, if he denied it then he must deny his authorship.

He admitted that the book was somewhat too flattering in its description.
But, take him all in all, Sir George really stood for his duty and his people.

He lifted the fur trade out of a slough of despond, he was kind and charitable to the people of the Red River Settlement, he was a good administrator and a patriot Briton, and though as his book tells and local tradition confirms it, he could not escape from what is called "the witchery of a pretty face," yet he rose to the position on the whole as a man who sought for the higher interests of the vast territory under his sway, as well as for the financial advancement of his company..